Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) - La caduta dei giganti

Famous work by Salvator Rosa, "the fall of the giants" created in the mid-1600s with a mixed technique of etching and burin.
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Large work, 70 x 50. 5 cm.
second state of two with dedication to Horatio Quaranta.
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Contemporary edition on laid and watermarked paper; watermark "lily flower in double circle on letter B".
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Good conservation conditions, after restoration, (there is a gap on the upper margin in correspondence with the sky, restored and retouched chromatically and graphically, and small tears restored along the margins) .
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The subject is derived from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' and narrates the disastrous fall of the giants who, having ascended Olympus, provoked the wrath of Jupiter.
The etching was conceived so that a potential client could finance a large painting with the same subject.
The project was in vain and the painting was never created, although the inscription at the bottom bears the word 'pinxit'.
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Bibliography:
(g. bozzolato, the engravings of salvator rosa, n 95, 1973; o. theodoli, salvator rosa, etchings, n 115, 1992)
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